Internal Medicine

Strengths

Recognized Leadership

Leaders throughout the University of Iowa, the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the Iowa City VA Health Care System.

America's Best

Medicine subspecialty clinical areas routinely appear in the U.S. News and World Report yearly ranking of America's Best Hospitals

20 members of the department have served 30 terms as presidents of 17 regional and national professional societies

Four individuals served terms as president of the American Federation for Medical Research

Two each served presidential terms for the Central Society for Clinical Research, American Heart Association, American Motility Society, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, and the Association of American Physicians.

Faculty direct 18 University of Iowa Research Centers, 8 NIH Program Project Grants, 3 NIH Center Grants, a Clinical and Translational Science Program and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratory

Leading in Patient Care

Robust clinical activity - in 2007-2008, over 105,280 ambulatory outpatients were seen in specialty clinics at UI Hospitals and Clinics and around the State of Iowa in Outreach Clinics.

For the same period, 12,490 patients were admitted to medicine inpatient units.

Leaders in the development of multidisciplinary clinical centers

The UI Family Care Center

The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

The UI Heart and Vascular Center

The Clifton Center for Digestive Diseases

Hospitalist Program

Teaching the Next Generation

At the center of medical education for medical student, resident and fellow training

Leader in in-house, local, regional, and national continuing medical education

Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Training Program for medical students

Graduate Program in Translational Biomedical Research

Medical Scientist Training Program for M.D./Ph.D. students.

Investing in the Future

Leaders in identifying sources of external funding from corporate and private donors

Endowed chairs and professorships

Startup funding for young faculty

Seed funding for new education and research initiatives

In the first gift to the University of its kind, the national Fraternal Order of Eagles recently pledged $25 million over five years to create the Fraternal Order of Eagles/University of Iowa Diabetes Research Center.

Department of Internal Medicine research, clinical and education programs are healthy and energetic, indelibly linked to one another by faculty who are passionate about their careers, their patients, and their students and dedicated to the principles of innovation and renewal.